“THE CITY I LOVE.”
WEALTHY WOMAN’S BEQUEST. “To the city and county of San Francisco, with the wish that the supervisors will expend that sum to add to the beauty of the said ‘city, which I have always loved.” These are the words with which Lillie Hitchcock Coit, one-time San Francisco belle, left approximately 200.000 dollars, according to the terms of her will made public on August 6. Her estate was valued at 700,000 dollars, one-third of which was left to the University of California to maintain a chair "established there by her father, Dr. Chas. Hitchcock. Mrs Coit left 5000 dollars to each of the surviving members of the volunteer hre company, of which she was made an honorary member back in the ’so’s.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 254, 25 September 1929, Page 8
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125“THE CITY I LOVE.” Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 254, 25 September 1929, Page 8
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